"Five years and that's all you have to say to me?" he asked. Standing so close she could taste his breath.

She wanted to move away from him. But she didn't want him to know just how much he affected her. So she stood right there. She wasn't going to let him intimidate her.


"Well... Is there anything else you want me to say?" she asked 

The side of his mouth moved upwards.

He was smiling? Why the hell was he smiling like that? She thought. She didn't remember saying anything funny.

"You left... Kitty" he said. "I asked you to stay... Begged you to stay... And you left anyways.. With him. And now you come back... Acting like everything is okay between us...?"

There was something about him... She thought. Something about the way he called her 'Kitty' that made her heart flip. He was the only one who called her that. She hadn't even realized how much she missed him calling her that. 

"You shouldn't have gone with him". He said. 

"Oh really? Why not? Because you didn't want me to?" she asked. She was starting to get angry. 

"Yeah that's right" he replied. "And because of what you felt for me -what we felt for each other. When I came near you, you felt an excitement so intense that you ceased to breathe --like you are feeling right now. You wanted me just as much as I wanted you. And that should have been enough to make you stay"

ALWAYS BEEN YOU 

“Vanessa! Please come in here.” Samson’s voice was sharp. 


She flinched. Would he lash out at her? Hit her? Bite her? Kill her? 


“This is taking way too much time. Could you please stay back and watch her while I and the guys pay Saunders a visit” Samson asked. 


Vanessa nodded. "Yeah sure. No problem. 


" Thank you" Samson replied, and after one glance in Isabella's direction, he bolted from the room. 


Isabella's eyes followed him before she looked back at Vanessa who casually sat on the wide bed as if nothing had happened. 


“He wanted to kill me, didn’t he?” Isabella asked Vanessa. "If I try to leave then he's going to kill me, isn't he? That's why he doesn't want me to leave. He thinks I'm going to tell the whole world what he is... That he is a vampire" 


Vanessa nodded. “Yes, he will” she replied, and grinned devilishly at Isabella. "He will compel you and bite you and drain you of every drop of blood in your body" 


Chapter Three Hundred and One